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J.A.GA'OKBLER.

SPRING BED.

Patented Oct. 12, 1897.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT FFIon.

JOHN A. GACKELER, OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS KARR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 591,464, dated October12, 1897. I Application filed December 2,1896. Serial No. 614,229. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it. may concern Be it known that I, JOHN A. GAOKELER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county ofKent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Spring-Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the means of bracing the centersof so-called double-decked spiral-spring bed-bottoms; and its objectsare, first, to provide a brace that. may be readily attached andremoved, and, second, to provide'a brace that will effectually tie thecenters of the springs and prevent themfrom sagging. -I attain theseobjects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure-1 is a plan of a bed-spring cutoff on the lines x of Fig.2. Fig. 2 isaside elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is an elevation ofthe link portion of my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My brace consists of a longitudinal wire or crimp rod B, provided witha-series of ofl'sets b, one of which is in position to engage with eachspring A in the bed-bottom on the line of each rod. This offset is ofsufficient degree to extend from near the center line of the coil of thespring at the small part to and through outside of the coil far enoughto allow the hooks on the ends of the link C to pass under the end ofthe offset and over the coil of the spring. I construct the .links witha hook at each end, as shown in Fig. 3, one of which is bent inonedirection and the other in the opposite direction, so that one hook,

as 0, may pass under the end or loop of the ofiset b and thence up overthe coil a of the spring, and the other, as 0, may pass over the coil aof the spring and thence down under the loop I), so that the series willform a continuous line across the entire width of the bed-bottom andwill be so securely locked together that, in combination with thecrimprods, they will thoroughly brace the springs, as and for thepurpose hereinbefore stated.-

I-Iaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination,with a double-deck spiralspring bed-bottom, oflongitudinal crimp-rods placed on the line of the lateral center of thecircle of the spring and extending the entire length of the bed-bottom,an offset at each spring so situated that the main rod will rest on topof a coil of the spring and the offset will pass out at one side underthe same coil and form a loop, and short cross-links having a hook ateach end bent in opposite directions, one of said hooks engaging withthe loop of the olfset-s oi the crimp-rod outside of the coilof thespring, thence over the coil of the spring, thence across the center ofthe spring at right angles with the crimp-rods and under the same coilof the spring, thence to the next spring under the loop and over thecoil, each loop and coil being engaged by the opposite ends of differentlinks so that all are locked together in such a manner that the springsare held to operate in a direct vertical and lateral set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 25, 1896.

' JOHN A. GACKELER.

In presence of ITHIEL J. CILLEY, ARY METZELAAR.

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